EA: We should have given priority to the Wii
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 at 10:40am by Jack
EA CEO John Riccitiello said today that backing the Xbox 360 and PS3 ahead of the Wii was a mistake, and his company was working hard to put more titles on the Wii and Nintendo DS.
“One thing that’s different is we typically figured out who the market leader was going to be before the start of the cycle and bet with our development resources on that platform. We made the wrong call there [by betting on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360], which made this transition harder than it would otherwise be. But now we’re catching up, and I think we’re fine. We’ve got some incredibly innovative Wii titles, incredibly innovative DS titles coming. And so I think that issue’s sort of behind us.”
Oh, EA, I can’t stay mad at you. Not after Boom Blox, anyway. Welcome back to the fold. All I ask is that you please make original, innovative games for the system.
July 29th, 2008 at 10:48 am
…AND NO MORE BOOGIE!!!
July 29th, 2008 at 11:33 am
Wow, that’s some major crow-eating there. Next year could get interesting.
July 29th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
we’ll see…
July 29th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
yeah they say that and yet we’ll still get things like Rockband 2 which will suck horribly on the Wii compared to the 360.
I still say $@*! EA
July 29th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
EA’s Smarty Pants for thw Wii is really fun.
July 29th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
Yeah yeah we’ve heard it before EA, but stop giving us MySims and Boogie and make some real games.
July 29th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
I WOULD LOVE to play Mirror’s Edge or DeadSpace on the Wii EA! *HINT*
I have an uber NEW PC with PROPER CONTROLS that can handle these games fine. I mention this to hopefully detour some graphic whore that believes their highly watered down 3 core Power PC with a bottom of the barrel outdated-GPU is better suited for the above mentioned games and that even suggesting a Wii port is blasphemy.
AND LOWER ROCKBAND’S PRICE to something realistic EA! The game is fun BTW. My friend bought it, but I still get annoyed by its gimped state and will not buy it for myself.
July 29th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
Man I know lots of artist that will cry over this news LOL.
July 30th, 2008 at 11:13 am
Wow. That’s a seriously creepy smile Mr. Riccitiello has there…
July 30th, 2008 at 11:33 am
An excerpt from Trailer Park Boys.
Rickey: I toda so, I f*****g I toda so
July 30th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
I’ll forgive EA…
If they give us Mutant League on the Virtual Console.
July 31st, 2008 at 5:18 pm
It’s all just publicity bullshit, really. All they do is schmooze whoever’s “winning” at the moment. You gotta stand by Nintendo while they’re not doing well, too. Screw EA.